Team:Heidelberg/Modeling/Chemotaxis

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Chemotaxis - Killing Model

Our detailed documentation "Spatially Resolved Modeling of Colicin-Induced Killing and Chemotactic Sensing in Escherichia Coli." includes the following information:

  • Introduction into the biological sytem
  • Chemotaxis model
  • Parameter estimation
  • Numerical methods
  • Results
  • Conclusions

You can download the documentation on Spatially Resolved Modeling of Colicin-Induced Killing and Chemotactic Sensing in Escherichia Coli. Further we have made a summary of the complete modeling group for non-mathematicians.


Simulation movies

Below is a list of simulation movies. Specific parameters can be taken from our documentation. All simulations are in ogg vorbis format (see http://www.vorbis.com for help).

  • movie 1 (3D, 2D)
    • 4-PDE system
    • killer cells positioned in corner
    • prey evenly distributed
  • movie 2 (3D, 2D)
    • 5-PDE system
    • killer cells positioned in corner
    • prey evenly distributed
  • movie 3 (3D, 2D)
    • 5-PDE system
    • killer cells positioned in corner
    • prey evenly distributed
    • 1/1000 AI-2 production rate
  • movie 4 (3D, 2D)
    • 5-PDE system
    • killer cells positioned in corner
    • prey evenly distributed
    • 8-fold chemotactic activity towards AI-2
  • movie 5 (3D, 2D)
    • 5-PDE system
    • killer cells evenly distributed
    • prey positioned in center